The purpose of the thesis is to develop a model for the functional behaviour of neurons in the primary motor cortex (M1) responsible for arm reaching movements. From Georgopoulos neurophysiological data, we provide a first bundle structure compatible with the hypercolumnar organization and with the position-direction selectivity of motor cortical cells. We then extend this model to encode the direction of arm movement which varies in time, as experimentally measured by Hatsopoulos by introducing the notion of movement fragments. We provide a sub-Riemannian model which describes the time-dependent directional selectivity of cells though integral curves of the geometric structure we set up. The sub-Riemannian distance we define allows to impl...
n A model of cortico-spinal trajectory generation for voluntary reaching movements is developed to f...
The analysis of neural dynamics in several brain cortices has consistently uncovered low-dimensional...
In this study, we introduce a hierarchical and modular computational model to explain how the CNS (C...
International audienceVisually-guided arm reaching movements are produced by distributed neural netw...
The motor cortex controls motor behaviors by generating movement-specific signals and transmitting t...
2013 - 2014How the brain controls movement is a question that has fascinated researchers from diffe...
Human motion studies have focused primarily on modeling straight point-to-point reaching movements. ...
Human motion studies have focused primarily on modeling straight point-to-point reaching movements. ...
Movements of human arm in a horizontal plane are very stereotyped in the sense that the correspondin...
How do humans choose their movement and what are the mechanisms involved in motion planning? This th...
In this work we present a geometric model of motor cortex that generalizes an already existing model...
International audienceIn this paper, a novel system-level mathematical model of the Basal Ganglia (B...
A model of cortico-spinal trajectory generation for voluntary reaching movements is developed to fun...
Abstract Human motion studies have focused primarily on modeling straight point-to-point reaching mo...
<p>The average cortical activity of the shoulder flexor (black traces) and the shoulder extensor (re...
n A model of cortico-spinal trajectory generation for voluntary reaching movements is developed to f...
The analysis of neural dynamics in several brain cortices has consistently uncovered low-dimensional...
In this study, we introduce a hierarchical and modular computational model to explain how the CNS (C...
International audienceVisually-guided arm reaching movements are produced by distributed neural netw...
The motor cortex controls motor behaviors by generating movement-specific signals and transmitting t...
2013 - 2014How the brain controls movement is a question that has fascinated researchers from diffe...
Human motion studies have focused primarily on modeling straight point-to-point reaching movements. ...
Human motion studies have focused primarily on modeling straight point-to-point reaching movements. ...
Movements of human arm in a horizontal plane are very stereotyped in the sense that the correspondin...
How do humans choose their movement and what are the mechanisms involved in motion planning? This th...
In this work we present a geometric model of motor cortex that generalizes an already existing model...
International audienceIn this paper, a novel system-level mathematical model of the Basal Ganglia (B...
A model of cortico-spinal trajectory generation for voluntary reaching movements is developed to fun...
Abstract Human motion studies have focused primarily on modeling straight point-to-point reaching mo...
<p>The average cortical activity of the shoulder flexor (black traces) and the shoulder extensor (re...
n A model of cortico-spinal trajectory generation for voluntary reaching movements is developed to f...
The analysis of neural dynamics in several brain cortices has consistently uncovered low-dimensional...
In this study, we introduce a hierarchical and modular computational model to explain how the CNS (C...